Subject: Re: HPT366 (UDMA/66 patch)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/2000 15:09:53
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> I've got some though about this for the other IDE chipsets too (also note
> you forgot a valid PCI speed: 30Mhz, and a unsupported one: 37.5Mhz):
> There's no easy way for the kernel to know what the pci bus speed is.
> ...
> Also it seems that in the non-i386 world the only PCI bus speed
> encountered is 33Mhz; this seems to also be true for modern motherboards/CPUs
> (unless you overclock, but then it's at your own risk).
StrongARM/DC21285 based systems will sometimes use a 25MHz PCI bus speed.
30MHz is also possible on certain platforms. The PCI bus speed is passed
to the kernel when booted so it would be possible to obtain the actual bus
speed for the pciide configuration.

Cheers,
					MArk